Comments on: Amazing slavery escape of Ellen and William Crafthttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/02/amazing-slavery-escape-of-elle.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 15 Sep 2014 23:11:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: robcat2075http://boingboing.net/2012/11/02/amazing-slavery-escape-of-elle.html#comment-1573361
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:18:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=191753#comment-1573361In the actual text of their book they spend quite a few pages explaining the wretched nature of slavery and also cite examples of white people kidnapped as children and held as slaves because they could not prove they were pure white. So even though enslavement of whites was illegal, the laws were crafted to advantage the rich when they wanted to do it.
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Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:56:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=191753#comment-1573254Traveling first class was an excellent component of the subterfuge. I hope their descendants know this is who they come from.
]]>By: Fnordiushttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/02/amazing-slavery-escape-of-elle.html#comment-1573123
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:11:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=191753#comment-1573123Ah, I remember some youth magazine when I was in school dramatising their story. Or was it a Scholastic novel? I can’t remember, as it was back in 1978, 1979 or thereabouts.